Railroad-ticket.



PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904.

O. S. TRAVIS.

RAILROAD TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14, 1904.

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RAILROAD-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,273, dated November 29, 1904.

Application filed March 14, 1904. Serial No. 197,996. iNo model.)

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Be it known that I, Oris SESSIONS TRAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Selina, in the county of Clayton and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Tickets, of which the fol-' lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to railroad-tickets; and the objects of my invention are to provide a railroad-ticket which will positively prevent fraud or deception on the part of the agent, the conductor, or the passenger; also, which will save time and labor for the agent, the conductor, and the passenger; also, which will provide a receipt for the agent, the conductor, and the passenger; also, which with a single punch and the saving of much time will designate the starting-point and point of destination on the agents stub, the conductors stub, and the passenger stub or section; also, which will save much time and trouble to the conductor by giving the passenger a slip clearly indicating his starting-point and point of destination, and also to provide a railroadticket which can be produced at a small eX- pense and which can be used for a single trip or for a round trip and which Will designate the point of starting and the destination on the passenger-stub, the companys stub, and the conductors stub, thus providing a ticket which will keep a perfect record on all three stubs or sections of the ticket and which will save time, prevent fraud, and retain a complete record of the entire ticket.

With these objects in view my invention comprises a railroad ticket embodying an agents stub or section, a conductors stub and section, and a detachable passengers stub or section, each of said sections bearing the stations or points for which the ticket is sold.

The invention further comprises a railroadticket embodying an agents stub, a conductors stub, and a passenger-stub, each bearing the series of places or points for which the ticket is intended, the places or, points being so arranged that the passengers stub can be folded upon the conductors stub, so that a single punch will designate on each stub or section the starting-point and the point of destination.

The invention also consists of a railroadticket embodying a novel combination and arrangement of the stub or sections substantially as disclosed herein.

Figure l represents a plan or face View of the ticket with the passengers flap or section open and looking at the back thereof. Fig. 2 represents a plan or face view of the passengers stub and the rear or back face of the agents and conductors stubs, and Fig. 3 represents a plan or face View of a round-trip or return ticket constructed in accordance with and embodying my invention.

My railroad-ticket consists of the agents stub or section A, the conductors stub or section B, and the passengers stub or section O, the agents and conductors sections or stubs boing formed or connected side by side with the series of stations D, arranged at their meeting edges and exactly opposite to each other, and the passenger-stub extends from one side of the agents and conductors stub and when folded has the stations or points of destination F thereon come in line with the stations upon the agents and conductors stubs in order that when the punch-mark G is made with the passengers stub folded down the niark will designate on the agents, the conductors, and thc passengers stubs or slips the same stations or the same startingpoint and point of destination, and this constitutes the essential and important feature of my ticket.

In addition to the stations printed upon the agents, conductors, and passengers stubs or slips each of said slips bears certain matter which is used on tickets of this character and which forms a constituent part of all tickets of this kind, and it is needless to refer particularly to such matter herein; but in the drawings is shown theimportantmatter which is printed upon each of the stubs or slips.

In the form of ticket used for return or round trip the going coupon or slip H is formed on the conductors slip or section B.

By the use of my ticket it is impossible to commit a fraud, as the series of stubs form a complete record and provide a check on the agent, conductor, and passenger, and the passengers stub giving exactly the same stations lOO and having exactly the sanne punch-mark as the -agents and conductors stub enables the conductor to see at a glance exactly the starting-point and point of destination for which the passenger holds the ticket. Also much tirne is saved to the agent and the conductor by the use of the passenger-slip and its peculiar relation, which enables a single punch to designate the point or station for which the ticket is sold. Also the ticket can be produced at a price which would commend it to the railroads in View of the fact that it embodies the features desired to produce a practical and useful railroad-ticket. f

I claiml. A railroad-ticket made from a single blank and consisting of an agents stub, a conductors stub, and a passengers stub, said stubs each having the saine series of stations thereon in the same relation, said passengers stub extending laterally from the agents stub and the conductors stub and partially from one side of each of said stubs, in order that the passengers stub may be folded down upon said agents and conductors stubs, and a single punch or cut-out portion designate on the passengers stub and the conductors stub the station for which the ticket is intended.

2. Arailroad-ticket consisting' of an agents stub, a passengers stub, and a conductors stub, each having the same series of stations or destinations thereon and arranged in such position and relation that a single punch or cut-ont portion marks the saine point of destination or station on each of said stubs, said passengers stub extending laterally from the agents stub and the conductors stub and partially from one side of each of said stubs, whereby said passengers stub may be folded down upon said agents and eonductors stub to enable the single punch or cut-out portion to be rnade on all of said stubs.

3. A railroad-ticket, having a series of stubs or sections arranged side by side, said stubs or sections each having the same series of stations arranged thereon in the same relation, and having an extension or stub to form a passengers stub also having the saine series of stations in the saine relation as the other stubs, said passengers stub extending laterally from said side-by-side stubs, whereby said passengers stub may be fold ed down upon the other stubs and a single punch or cut-out portion designate on the entire series of stubs the destination or station for which the ticket is intended.

In testimony whereof` I have signed my naine to this specification in presence of two witnesses.

OTIS SESSIONS TRAVIS.

Witnesses CHARNER WT. HILL, H. E. CHAMBLIss. 

